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Annihilate those Songshan bandits completely!
My goodness! Is this even a war? This is senseless slaughter! It’s a human wave tactic, piling people up to die! People are being crushed to death alive!
Jiang Ting woke up just as the sunlight first touched this soft yet familiar earth!
The people have awakened!
They will overthrow their oppressors, become masters of their own fate, and fiercely strike down the drowning Songshan bandits!
...Uh, that’s a bit off the mark.
Li Miao listened to the scouts’ reports with a smile almost breaking across his face—after all, this was his first genuine victory in war! A splendid and decisive triumph!
Before his troops even launched an attack, over fifteen hundred Songshan bandits were either killed or trapped, utterly destroying the once-mighty Meiqian soldiers stationed outside with their overwhelming momentum!
Yes, utterly destroyed. They feigned weakness, refusing to engage at first, even leaving their gates wide open, tricking Meiqian into thinking they were plotting some scheme. This arrogance made Meiqian prideful and reckless, losing all sense of direction and identity, soaring high on confidence—only to be shattered and thrown into hell by an unrelenting barrage of pots, pans, and miscellaneous household items! They were smashed senseless!
This battle was so classic, so deeply ingrained in its essence, that for decades afterward it was incorporated into military strategy texts! Even generations later, historians still hailed this battle as pivotal in history, comparing its significance to that of Qin Shi Huang’s role for emperors—a rare and remarkable appraisal! This was the first eternal legacy left by Li Miao!
Later, even a Tang dynasty official named Wei Zheng used this event to propose the principle: “Resentment is not in its magnitude, but in the people’s hearts. Water can carry a boat or overturn it; one must be extremely cautious.” This has been passed down through generations as a warning that the true danger lies in betrayal within the hearts of men.
Yet, although Li Miao won a great victory, Meiqian’s fury was near volcanic! His boasts had gone out, and today he was determined to break Jiang Ting and capture Li Miao. But when he heard Dongfang Ming’s report, Meiqian felt the sky was collapsing!
He only had three thousand troops in total; this was all his core strength from Songshan. While yesterday’s losses caused him some pain, many of those conscripts were forced to fight and not his elite. But today’s casualties were unbearable—half of his elite forces were either slaughtered or trapped!
These were his finest soldiers—just watching their leader dodge axes flying at high speed showed they had fought many battles—but here they were, crushed by a chaotic hail of mundane household objects, dying in such a humiliating manner!
Thinking of this made Meiqian furious. Just moments ago, someone had thrown a plow! Damn it! If not for a few men sacrificing themselves to save him, Meiqian would be a cold corpse by now.
He narrowed his eyes, clenched his fists until veins bulged, and roared:
“Li Miao! I will rip your head off and piss on it for three years!”
Meiqian was no fool—he was a wolf. He immediately rallied his troops to advance step by step toward Li Miao, baring teeth and claws. Arrows flew and blades clashed. In short order, many villagers were slaughtered by the awakened bandits.
These soldiers were full of hatred! Their comrades had been cut down in an instant! And they blamed these villagers!
The cries of battle echoed through Meiqian’s ranks, drifting through the air. When these troops entered the village, it was like wolves descending upon a sheepfold—disrupting the peace, choking the skies with smoke and chaos, turning the place into a one-sided slaughter.
Many villagers were brutally killed, even dismembered. Though Chen Dao led the young militia to rescue, four fists could not match eight hands—heroes could not overcome overwhelming numbers! The tide of battle was impossible to turn.
Blood flowed beneath high walls; corpses littered the fields. Many civilians tried to save themselves but were mercilessly driven back, leaving behind scattered limbs and mangled bodies—a scene of utter terror.
Gradually, Meiqian’s fifteen hundred furious troops smashed through to confront the last four hundred young militia; Jiang Ting’s final stronghold lay just beyond this wall, behind this human barricade.
Meiqian’s rage blazed. So many of his men had died! He intended to capture Li Miao alive; mere mutilation would not appease his fury. To him, these young militia were nothing but dead bodies blocking his path.
Li Miao’s face darkened with worry. Just moments ago, he had been jubilant over the barrage of cookware, but now his brow furrowed deeply.
His tactic had failed to annihilate Meiqian’s forces. Now Meiqian was coming at him with fiery rage, and he had only four hundred children to defend against over fifteen hundred seasoned soldiers!
This was pure nonsense.
How was he supposed to fight?
Li Miao knew he was about to die. Tears nearly welled up. Was his life—no, his great and mighty body—about to be torn apart?
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There was simply no chance of victory!
Yang Hong shouted urgently beside him, “Your Majesty, let us retreat in this chaos! We have done all we can for Jiang Ting; there’s no time for hesitation—retreat is the only chance!”
“Retreat...” Li Miao knew this was the best option, but how? Where to? He had only his two legs and one mount—a donkey so stupid it seemed to embody stupidity itself! How could he run? Besides, with the imperial seal in hand, he was a marked man, fighting wherever he went.
Run? No way! In a chaotic world, the strong rule the day! The powerful become heroes!
What did he have? Zhang Xun still had three hundred elite reinforcements, but no one knew where they were hiding! Li Miao almost cried—he felt helpless, as if transported back to the moment he first arrived here.
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